TCM Schedule for Tuesday, July 1: Happy Canada Day/100th Birthday: Farley Granger

During its daytime schedule, TCM honors Canada with a roster of films featuring familiar Canadian-born stars. Here's the list:

Mary Pickford in Coquette (1929)
Norma Shearer in Marie Antoinette (1938)
Raymond Massey scaring the crap out of everyone in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Hume Cronyn in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Good old Walter Pidgeon in Forbidden Planet (1956)
Fay Wray in King Kong (1933)
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas in Strange Brew (1983)

And the actor Farley Granger was born 100 years ago today in San Jose, California. Tonight's movies include a Hitchcock classic, film noir selections, and a musical!

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

1:30 AM Paris Is Burning (1990)
Against a backdrop of poverty, AIDS, and discrimination in 1980s New York City, this seminal documentary chronicles Harlem drag balls as houses compete in various categories, using fashion, movement and style to win trophies.
Dir: Jennie Livingston Cast: Carmen, Paris Dupree, Pepper Labeija
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

3:00 AM Fox and His Friends (1975)
Franz "Fox" is a working-class, carnival worker in need of cash for his weekly lottery purchase. He's picked up by an older man named Max, who introduces him to two young gay men. The next day, Fox wins 500,000 marks in the lottery, and the two young men suddenly become Fox's friends.
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karl Boehm
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #27 (1955)
Walter Pidgeon introduces Part One of "Captains Courageous" and introduces a clip from "Forbidden Planet."
Dir: null Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Happy Canada Day

6:00 AM Coquette (1929)
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Dir: Sam Taylor Cast: Mary Pickford, John Mack Brown, Matt Moore
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

7:30 AM Marie Antoinette (1938)
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
Runtime: 157 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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10:15 AM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men's loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y



12:15 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



2:15 PM Forbidden Planet (1956)
A futuristic version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Dir: Fred McLeod Wilcox Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



4:00 PM King Kong (1933)
A film crew discovers the "eighth wonder of the world," a giant prehistoric ape, and brings him back to New York where he wreaks havoc.
Dir: Merian C. Cooper Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



6:00 PM Strange Brew (1983)
The MacKenzie brothers battle over a case of beer with a powerful brewmaster who is trying to take over the world.
Dir: Rick Moranis Cast: Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



TCM Prime Time: 100th Birthday: Farley Granger

8:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



10:00 PM Side Street (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



11:30 PM The Naked Street (1955)
A racketeer saves his daughter's no-good husband from the chair but lives to regret it.
Dir: Maxwell Shane Cast: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



1:15 AM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



3:00 AM Small Town Girl (1953)
A sheriff's daughter falls for a playboy arrested for speeding.
Dir: Leslie Kardos Cast: Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



4:45 AM Hollywood Without Make-Up (1966)
In this special, Ken Murray hosts his own behind-the-scenes home movies of some of Hollywood's greatest stars.
Dir: Rudy Behlmer Cast: Ken Murray
Runtime: 50 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y